Portfolio Recovery Associates, Inc.
Last Update: 3 hours ago
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| Key Statistics | ||||||||
| Change: | 1.60 (6.11%) | |||||||
| Last Trade: | 27.78 | |||||||
| Prev Close: | 26.18 | |||||||
| Share Volume: | 98.77K | |||||||
| Market Cap: | 424.50M | |||||||
| P/E ratio: | 9.20 | |||||||
| Profit Margin: | 17.90 | |||||||
| Operating Margin: | — | |||||||
| Return On Assets: | 7.80 | |||||||
| Return On Equity: | 17.50 | |||||||
| Stock Price History | ||||||||
| Beta: | 1.03 | |||||||
| 52 week change: | -29.80% | |||||||
| 52 week high: | 52.73 | |||||||
| 52 week low: | 26.05 | |||||||
| Dividends | ||||||||
| Dividend yield: | — | |||||||
| Share Statistics | ||||||||
| Shares outstanding: | 15.28M | |||||||
| Short % of float: | 33.20% | |||||||
Portfolio Recovery Associates: the post-it note thesis
Portfolio Recovery Associates (PRAA) is essentially in the business of buying discharged receivables, bad debt, for much less than its face value, then attempting to collect on that debt. Right now, in the teeth of the housing bubble collapse and the rece...